The Old Colts
Author : Glendon Swarthout
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780989315449
The Colts' Baltimore
Author : Michael Olesker
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2008-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801890624
Book Description
Third Place, General Trade Hardcover Nonfiction, 2009 New York Book Show. Bookbinders' Guild of New York. This is Michael Olesker's nostalgic reminiscence of 1958, the year the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants in sudden-death overtime in a game that still grips the emotions of Baltimoreans. Olesker recaptures the city’s love affair with the Colts in a series of thoughtful and colorful stories that give voice to such notable characters as Colts players Johnny Unitas and Art Donovan, politicians Tommy D’Alesandro and Jack Pollack, entertainers Buddy Deane and Royal Parker, sportscasters Chuck Thompson and Vince Bagli, and filmmaker John Waters. The Colts’ Baltimore also traces the changing cultural landscape of the city just entering an age of revolution—a time when schools were being racially integrated, rock and roll played on the radio, and Baltimore was planning to renew the dilapidated downtown. Revealing warm ties between Baltimore and its beloved Colts, Olesker's writing makes the events of 1958 seem like only yesterday.
Football in Baltimore
Author : Ted Patterson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2000-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801864247
Book Description
Radio/TV sports announcer Patterson has amassed one of the world's premier collections of Baltimore sports memorabilia in this short history of football in the city. He takes readers on a tour of his remarkable assemblage, not only to highlight the remarkable games and players, but also to explore the pop culture that has survived them. 250 photos, 48 in color.
The Best Game Ever
Author : Mark Bowden
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0857899112
Book Description
On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the American NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. An estimated forty-five million viewers - at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game - tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense - the Colts -versus its best defense - the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the glamour boys of the Giants squad. The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sport and is destined to become a classic.
The Colt Heritage
Author : Robert Lawrence Wilson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780671248277
Book Description
When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore
Author : William Gildea
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780395621455
Book Description
Describes 1950s Baltimore, offers profiles of famous Colts players of the era, and recounts the author's relationship with his father
Collision of Wills
Author : Jack Gilden
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2018-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1496210387
Book Description
In their seven years together, quarterback Johnny Unitas and coach Don Shula, kings of the fabled Baltimore Colts of the 1960s, created one of the most successful franchises in sports. Unitas and Shula had a higher winning percentage than Lombardi's Packers, but together they never won the championship. Baltimore lost the big game to the Browns in 1964 and to Joe Namath and the Jets in Super Bowl III--both in stunning upsets. The Colts' near misses in the Shula era were among the most confounding losses any sports franchise ever suffered. Rarely had a team in any league performed so well, over such an extended period, only to come up empty. The two men had a complex relationship stretching back to their time as young teammates competing for their professional lives. Their personal conflict mirrored their tumultuous times. As they elevated the brutal game of football, the world around them clashed about Vietnam, civil rights, and sex. Collision of Wills looks at the complicated relationship between Don Shula, the league's winningest coach of all time, and his star player Johnny Unitas, and how their secret animosity fueled the Colts in an era when their losses were as memorable as their victories.
Brothers
Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416547789
Book Description
Blends history and memoir in an account that in alternating chapters explores the author's quest to understand the impact of his brothers on his life and the complex relationships between iconic brothers, including the Thoreaus, the Van Goghs, and the Marxes.
Uncommon
Author : Tony Dungy
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1414363958
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller is now in softcover with a bonus chapter on how the “Dare to Be Uncommon” movement is reaching schools, teams, and families across the country and an update on Tony’s life since retiring as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. What does it take to live a life of significance? When Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy took home the trophy in Super Bowl XLI, fans around the world looked to him as the epitome of success. Athletic victory, professional excellence, fame and celebrity, awards and honors—he had it all. But even in that moment, he knew those achievements had little to do with his ultimate significance as a man. Coach Dungy still passionately believes that there is a different path to significance—a path characterized by attitudes, ambitions, and allegiances that are all too rare but uncommonly rewarding. In the New York Times best seller Uncommon, Dungy reveals secrets to achieving significance that he has learned from his remarkable parents, his athletic and coaching career, his mentors, and his walk with God.
The Big House
Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439124914
Book Description
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
